This happened to me as well both here and on RPS - Unfortunately, the only good solution is to use something like adblocker to block the facebook and twitter links - its their connections that makes you hang a bit.

yeah its still doing it. Will at times lock my whole PC for 1-2 seconds I guess while its loading the front page, not sure why. Seems that if its cached in my PC then it doesnt do it.

I for the life of me can't figure out why. Our google page speed is at a whopping 91 out of 100 and I can't duplicate the issue to save my life.

I think I mentioned this before - Rockpapershotgun has the same issues, until you block facebook and the like via adblock. The explanation over there is, that it doesn't matter if the site is fast, its the user that is waiting for feedback from facebook on the page causing the delay and issues. I don't know if this is the issue, but they have some posts over there about it, and the symptoms are exactly the same

Ok, so it's an issue with some versions of IE and Firefox deciding they want to load everything in the page flow before displaying content, particularly on installations on older hardware. I have implemented a solution- all widgets that call external content such as FB, twitter, and Youtube, will now "lazy load". That is to say, they will load after all content is loaded. Let me know if that helps (and make sure you clear your cache just in case)

So we found out another thing that may have contributed to this issue with our adserver software. It was using the gamingtrend.net domain name that we were using during the transitional period and therefore all the ads were referring to that domain. Yesterday the .net domain was having trouble resolving on my end, and causing the entire site to hang up as was described. We fixed the resolve issue and changed all of the adserver settings to the proper domain and everything seems to be much snappier.